Staten Island Advance/Maria CarrozzaA car slammed into the front of 443 Lighthouse Ave. yesterday. Fortunately, no one was injured.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - A 67-year-old man lost control of his car on a treacherous, rain-slicked curve on Lighthouse Hill yesterday morning, plowing through a front yard before hitting the front of a house.

The gold Hyundai sedan was heading down Lighthouse Avenue just before 11 a.m. when it hit the front of 443 Lighthouse Ave.

“We were ready to have breakfast. I just put the juice down. I was heating the bread,” said Dr. Nadia El-Maraghy, a pediatrician and the home’s owner.

I thought, ‘The house is falling.’ It shook,” she added.

The car, which was heading down the hill in the direction of Richmond Road, went through the front yard, over some bushes, and through a metal fence before hitting the house and coming to a rest by the front steps.

“You know, two seconds, he would have been with us in the living room,” Dr. El-Maraghy said.

The driver of the car, identified by sources as John Scoma of Willowbrook, was taken away on a stretcher. His injuries were not life-threatening, police said.

Tow truck driver Wilson Breen said he helped pull the driver out of the car, since the house’s steps prevented his him from opening the door.

He was a little shook up,” Breen said. “Just shook up, scared. He said he just slid.”

HYUNDAI RECALL

Hyundai has recalled about 140,000 of their vehicles because the steering assembly may not be properly assembled, and therefore the driver could lose control of the steering altogether.

It was not known whether the recall had anything to do with the accident.

MANY ACCIDENTS

Dr. El-Maraghy and neighbors said they’ve seen frequent accidents at the bend in the road in front of her house.

Neighbor Maria Carrozza suggested placing a speed bump at the top of the hill, or a stop sign just before the bend.

And Dr. El-Maraghy suggested turning the road into a one-way up the hill, even though that would mean a mile and a half detour through Rockland Avenue and Richmond Road for motorists trying to access several streets in the neighborhood from the top of Lighthouse Avenue.

“Let them come all the way around,” she said. “It’s safer. We want it one-way.”